School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Communicable Disease
  • Unit Code

    HST6337
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Edmore MASAKA

Description

Epidemiology examines the patterns and causes of disease in human populations. This unit introduces key concepts on how public health research and surveillance is undertaken, evaluated, and used in industry. Students will learn how to source, review, interpret and apply epidemiological literature to support their practice.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5117

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate technical information about communicable disease to a range of stakeholders.
  2. Apply evidence-based responses when planning for a communicable disease outbreak scenario.
  3. Assess social and environmental determinants of communicable disease within a local community, and plan intervention approaches to address these determinants.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to communicable disease: elements and history of communicable disease, epidemiology, surveillance, disease transmission and control, local and global organisations concerned with communicable disease control
  2. Globalisation and communicable disease: globalisation and enhanced communicable disease transmission, global communicable disease risks in vulnerable populations, culture and behaviour, international approaches to disease control.
  3. Critical evaluation of sources error in epidemiological studies: chance, bias, confounding, statistical inference.
  4. Emerging issues in communicable disease: emerging communicable disease threats, changes in host susceptibility, emerging and re-emerging disease - looking to the future.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit combines lectures, case-study discussions and tutorials supported by on-line resources. Practical tutorial activities focus on searching the literature and adapting information for use in industry. This will culminate in the development of an electronic survey, to showcase practical skills developed over the unit. The unit also involves collaboration and peer-supported group work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseMedia release20%
AssignmentOutbreak response plan40%
ProjectCommunicable disease risk assessment tool40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseMedia release20%
AssignmentOutbreak response plan40%
ProjectCommunicable disease risk assessment tool40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Communicable Disease
  • Unit Code

    HST6337
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Edmore MASAKA

Description

Epidemiology examines the patterns and causes of disease in human populations. This unit introduces key concepts on how public health research and surveillance is undertaken, evaluated, and used in industry. Students will learn how to source, review, interpret and apply epidemiological literature to support their practice.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5117

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate technical information about communicable disease to a range of stakeholders.
  2. Apply evidence-based responses when planning for a communicable disease outbreak scenario.
  3. Assess social and environmental determinants of communicable disease within a local community, and plan intervention approaches to address these determinants.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to communicable disease: elements and history of communicable disease, epidemiology, surveillance, disease transmission and control, local and global organisations concerned with communicable disease control
  2. Globalisation and communicable disease: globalisation and enhanced communicable disease transmission, global communicable disease risks in vulnerable populations, culture and behaviour, international approaches to disease control.
  3. Critical evaluation of sources error in epidemiological studies: chance, bias, confounding, statistical inference.
  4. Emerging issues in communicable disease: emerging communicable disease threats, changes in host susceptibility, emerging and re-emerging disease - looking to the future.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit combines lectures, case-study discussions and tutorials supported by on-line resources. Practical tutorial activities focus on searching the literature and adapting information for use in industry. This will culminate in the development of an electronic survey, to showcase practical skills developed over the unit. The unit also involves collaboration and peer-supported group work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseMedia release20%
AssignmentOutbreak response plan40%
ProjectCommunicable disease risk assessment tool40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseMedia release20%
AssignmentOutbreak response plan40%
ProjectCommunicable disease risk assessment tool40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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